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Migrant deaths in the El Paso sector fell significantly in fiscal year 2025, corresponding with a sharp decrease in migrant arrivals.
Border Patrol recorded 35 migrant deaths in fiscal year 2025, a steep drop from 176 deaths in the previous year.
Despite the decrease, experts suggest the death rate relative to the number of crossings may still be high and that data collection remains incomplete.
The number of migrants dying in U.S. Border Patrol's El Paso sector fell significantly in fiscal year 2025 as the region has seen a sharp decrease in migrants arriving .
Thirty-five migrants died along the border in fiscal year 2025, which ended on Sept. 30, Claudio Herrera-Baeza, the public information officer for the El Paso sector, said.
In the same period there were